Finding Abbey Quotes

“few days later, the doctors broke the news to Clarke that Abbey had cancer of the liver and pancreas and that he would die within months. When Abbey heard the news, his first words, according to Jack Loeffler’s book Adventures with Ed, were, “At least I don’t have to floss anymore.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“Mystery is the one thing that we can be sure of. The unknown. —EDWARD ABBEY”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“Wherever there are deer and hawks, wherever there is liberty and danger, wherever there is wilderness, wherever there is a living river, Henry Thoreau will find his eternal home.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds! —HENRY DAVID THOREAU”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“You know how the public is; we kill the real monsters out there—whether they’re grizzly bears, or great white sharks, or Indians. Then we re-create them in our imaginations because we want those fearful things, but we don’t want them in flesh and blood.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“What we do not know and cannot solve, that is the American frontier that Turner thought was long closed.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“The American frontier is not just a physical frontier, not just unexplored spots on maps; it’s the places of mystery populating the American mind.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. —KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“Friendship’s a rare and elusive gift in this shattered, chaotic, frantically moving society of ours. —EDWARD ABBEY”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“America needs Abbey’s ideas now because we’re stuck in a slow slide to the suburbanization of our lives.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“Abbey, with a cheap beer nestled in his hand, says simply, “Desolation in my heart.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“If we never had any adventures, we would never know what ‘stuff’ was in us.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

“So this journey could have begun when I learned sometime in the late 1990s about Abbey’s mysterious burial. Abbey died in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989 at age sixty-two from internal bleeding. After his death, four friends transported his body to a desert. There, they illegally buried him in a grave hidden to all but his friends and family and those turkey vultures banking overhead. His friends laid a hand-chiseled basalt tombstone atop the grave. The stories tell us that the tombstone reads, “Edward Abbey. 1927–1989. No Comment.”
― Sean Prentiss, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave